I'm hoping to have a chance to try out the virtual machine package of the wikidot server, but I'm not having any luck.

I downloaded the VM as required, and got what I think is a clean copy, tho it took several tries

wikidot-dev2-vm-20080220.tar.gz (603,068 KB, or 617,540,980 bytes)

I tried using PowerArchiver and TUGZip, but neither was able to decompress everything for some reason. Neither generated errors, tho. By merging the two uncompressed versions, I was able to get a VM that booted up, but apache failed during startup, and the /wikidot/…/wikidot1 and wikidot2 directories were empty.

When I tried to shut down the VM, I kept getting an error: "Must be root", but I do not know what the root password is. It isn't "wdadmin", as it is for the wdadmin account. I had to force a "power-failure" shutdown in WMWare Player just to turn the VM off.

for the empty folders.. i can confirm this problem, but nothing more :/
this should not happen in an ready image.. though for me it might is caused by virtualbox.. but then again.. he is using vmware and has the same problem